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Stress testing for the detection of coronary artery disease is most useful in patients considered on clinical grounds to be at intermediate risk.¹ The patient's age and sex and the nature of chest pain can be used to provide a simple estimate of the probability of coronary artery disease.² Because the absence of chest pain has traditionally been interpreted to indicate a low likelihood of coronary disease — and, indeed, a low long-term risk — functional testing has been thought to contribute little to the evaluation of patients without angina.³

Basing a selection strategy for stress testing on the evaluation . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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